Charles Sumner: “The profession with which you began, of All by the People, is lost in…”

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The profession with which you began, of All by the People, is lost in the wretched reality of Nothing for the People.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner expresses disillusionment with the failure of democratic ideals to serve the people.

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Consent of the governed necessary in forming new governments of, XII. 298.

Sovereignty of, belongs to the people, XVI. 28.

Early testimony of the Church against, I. 59.

His loyalty to the Declaration of Independence, XIX. 317.

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Charles Sumner: “The profession with which you began, of All by the People, is lost in the wretched reality of Nothing for the People.”